I have an Acer netbook with a bad hard drive – or one that needs to recovered. So I took the hard drive from a broken laptop and put it into the Acer. It says it has three days to activate or it will automatically activate and install Service Pack 3. I have a product key with numbers.
Is that new hard drive ready to activate? Because if so, I would like to keep it for one of my other laptops that only has XP on it, and I can just buy a new hard drive and use the product key that's on the bottom of the Acer netbook. The Acer had Windows Starter; the new hard drive has Home Premium and I would like to keep it.
I'm thinking that it might never have been activated. Why would it say that I only have three days left to activate or activate automatically?